So guys, the year is coming to an end, and you already know what that means. Everywhere you look, people are doing their wrap-ups……celebrating their wins, counting their losses, sharing their most played songs, their biggest moments, their lessons… everything.
This is actually one of my favourite things about the end of the year. I enjoy seeing people reflect, laugh, brag small, cry small, and just share their journey and naturally, when you see all that, you start to look at yourself too.
So I looked.
And guess what I found?
Absolutely nothing to wrap. 😖😖
This year has been one of the most unpredictable years of my entire life and if I was to give it a tag it would be “Man Proposes, God Disposes” because God for sure disposed the hell out of all my proposals for 2025…..😂!
It’s so funny because I’ve always known life is very unpredictable but this year I didn’t just know it, I lived it. Now the crazy part is, while I was thinking about the whole thing, I realized this same thing happened to me 10 years ago…..in 2015!! In this case though, it wasn’t God that disposed, it was man…lol but let me tell you guys what happened.
You know how in your final year of school, you’d have to prepare and submit a project work. In most cases, the project covers almost half of your grades for that year and the way it goes is that you’d pick a topic, submit a draft, and work under a supervisor who approves each chapter until you submit the final thing. Simple, right? Yeah well, that’s what I thought too o 🤣….but as a very special child of God that I am….my own was different.
To be honest, things started out perfectly, I was assigned to the exact lecturer I wanted, I picked my topic, submitted my draft… and he approved it and I started writing. Everything was going so well, so well that I started to wonder why people dreaded final year project…..like ‘its not so bad’ I thought to myself.
So yeah, I was researching, writing, submitting for approval, making corrections and by the time we entered second semester I was in already in chapter four, almost done and just waiting for final approval while also preparing for final exams. Then boom! Out of nowhere there was a malpractice scandal and unfortunately for me, my supervisor was involved so they suspended him. And just like that, I became ‘supervisor-less’.
At first I didn’t think it was a big deal, I assumed they would just assign me a new supervisor and I thought, “Ah, since I’m already almost done, he’ll just read it, approve and we move.”
My people…..the complete opposite happened
I mean I did get a new supervisor, the very one I fasted and prayed against at the beginning of the year and you know what this man did? He looked at my project and told me I had written rubbish…..lmao
This man rejected the topic, my four chapters, all the work I had done for months — like he literally disposed everything. Then he told me, very casually, that I would have to bring new project topic options and start again. A whole project. From the beginning, while I was writing my final year exams!!!! Like everywhere just blurrrr 😭😂
Anyway y’all….I’m sharing this story because this is exactly what 2025 felt like too, I thought I had gotten to a pretty good chapter in my life’s project you know…..just awaiting final approval and then out of nowhere lol, God decided to dispose the whole thing 😔
If someone had asked me in January how I thought my year would end, my answer would have been nowhere near where I am right now. This is what I mean when I say life can be so unpredictable.
Normally, at this time of the year, I’d be making plans, writing goals, drafting new year resolutions in my head—even if I don’t write them down. But this year?
I don’t want to make any plans.
The unpredictability of life has honestly made me scared of planning anything. Even setting goals feels stressful. I know unpredictability can be positive too….like amazing, life-changing things can happen out of the blue. But still, I’m not interested in resolutions this time around.
Right now, the only plan I have is how to spend my money.
And even that one is shaky, because if I feel like doing something for myself today, I’m going to do it. Tomorrow can figure itself out. (yeah don’t take financial advice from me)🤣🤣
So if anyone asks what my plan for 2026 is, the answer is simple:
To take each day as it comes.
Because when your life feels like a blank sheet, there’s a strange kind of freedom in it. What I mean is—when you don’t have anything written down, you have fewer expectations and, honestly, fewer disappointments.
When you haven’t mapped out every step, you stay open to the myriad of amazing things that can happen. You’re not fixated on your year going in one specific direction, so you’re able to notice and receive whatever beautiful surprises life decides to bring.
And that’s the energy I’m going into 2026 with.
No resolutions.
No grand plans.
Just a blank sheet.
And yeah, if you want to hear the full story of how I eventually completed that final year project after starting all over again, let me know in the comments.
Well, well, well — that’s the gist I have for you today.
Thank you for reading.
P.S: How are you planning to spend the holidays?
Dirty December? Vacation? Staying indoors like me?
Share with me in the comments — I’d love to read and live through your plans. 😎
With love,
Beks 💜
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